{"id":376386,"date":"2026-07-17T03:16:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T03:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/376386\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T03:16:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T03:16:22","slug":"houston-most-wanted-fugitive-captured-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/376386\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Houston Most Wanted&#8217; fugitive captured in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elvio Mancebo skipped sentencing on a murder conviction in 2023<\/p>\n<p>Generic jail &#8211; lightbox KPRC (Copyright 2025 by KPRC Click2Houston &#8211; All rights reserved.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">BROOKLYN \u2013 Convicted murderer and fugitive Elvio Mancebo was captured in Brooklyn after years on the run, ending a manhunt that began when he failed to appear for sentencing in 2023, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Mancebo was charged in 2017 with capital murder in Harris County. Investigators say he later skipped sentencing and disappeared, prompting an effort to locate him across jurisdictions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Officials credited \u201coutstanding teamwork\u201d among multiple law enforcement agencies for the arrest, saying Mancebo is no longer a threat to the public.<\/p>\n<p>FBI flyer of &#8216;Houston Most Wanted&#8217; (KPRC-TV)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 kfUEDb copyright\">Copyright 2026 by KPRC Click2Houston &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elvio Mancebo skipped sentencing on a murder conviction in 2023 Generic jail &#8211; lightbox KPRC (Copyright 2025 by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[133095,56,58,57,133096],"class_list":["post-376386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-elvio","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-mancebo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}